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" You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. "

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" Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. "

" Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I'm a nature bug. "

" The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. "

" Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. "

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

" To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. "

" To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. "

" Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. "

" Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature. "

Michael Faraday

" Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. "

" My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me. "

" In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. "

Charles Lindbergh

" You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it. "

" Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind. "

" When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury. "

" For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. "

" To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. "

" When one looks at Nature through the glass walls of the Farnsworth House, it takes on a deeper significance than when one stands outside. More of Nature is thus expressed - it becomes part of a greater whole. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "

Douglas Tompkins

" The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. "

" As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight. "

Jordan Peterson

" Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature. "

" What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars? "

Pliny the Elder

" The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself. "

" Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. "

" Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. "

" A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination. "